While working with Sesame Communications their top developer turned me on to IETester a full service free application that runs all versions of the dreaded Internet Explorer, even the ancient IE 5.5 (which I no longer support). Simply add the url to the bar and view your site in all versions of Internet Explorer at [...]

Marketcircle recently released Billings Touch for the iPhone to accompany their popular invoicing software Billings. When you first open up Billings Touch, you have two options. If you have Billings already set up on your computer, you can connect your iPhone to that account. By using that information, you can check up on your invoices [...]

One of my favorite little Firefox Add-ons is an interesting kind of site launcher called “Morning Coffee”. I know it’s probably a fairly well-known plugin but I’ve recently been asked what that little coffee icon is at the top of my browser a few times. So here goes…. I typically go through and check all [...]

I recently installed the StatPress plug-in on both of my WordPress sites as well as a couple client sites. So far it’s a returning nice analyitics that the WordPress Stats just doesn’t cover. You can download it and give it a run for yourself here. It’s the first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of [...]

I spent the night last night installing a really cool (and free) forum tool to a WordPress Site I’m working on. Simple:Press WordPress Forum Installation So far it seems to be really easy to install and set up. The installation includes various levels of interactivity from administrator to guest as well as functions allowing for [...]

Whether you are designing a clean corporate website or a grunge portfolio site, color is going to play a major role in how the design is perceived by the audience. That’s why it’s important to get the colors right upfront. There are plenty of tools out there made especially for this, but like anything else [...]

A few months ago I designed a theme for THAT Agency to distribute for free via WordPress.org. Once I finally had to get it all put together and submitted it was a fun and challenging in-house project. The theme is called THAT Music Theme, and it’s based on the 960 gird framework allowing for easy [...]

Adobe has finally released an update to the ever buggy Fireworks CS4. It’s supposed to solve some of the stability issues and common errors. Now if only they could sort out the issues involved when shifting spaces on Mac. 5/06/09 This update to Adobe® Fireworks® CS4 software greatly improves stability for users running Fireworks CS4 [...]

Smashing Magazine comes up with another collection of 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts. Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be [...]

There’s little doubt that OS X is a popular platform for web designers – it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing and publishing websites. Whether you prefer to use an all-in-one environment for designing websites or a range of different applications, there’s a tool to suit you perfectly. This article will [...]

Quickly and easily install this plug-in to track and monitor your wordpress traffic, find out what your most popular blogs and pages are, etc. It’s fantastic and really easy to set up. You’ll need to create a free WordPress Account and then hook it up through the plugin with the necessary information. Once it’s installed [...]

One of the many benefits to WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platform and Content Management System (CMS), is that it is open source software with a very large and dedicated community. There are so many great developers working to make WordPress the best that it can be, that there are thousands of free [...]